Monday, May 26, 2008

Sing for Your Visa....

In a post over at The Washington Note, Scott Paul tackles some of the visa blowback that's happening for U.S. citizens who want to travel overseas in the wake of post 9/11 visa hysteria. And just why are other countries hiking fees for visas and ramping up the information required for U. S. citizens to obtain visas? Oh, perhaps little indignities such as this, which happened to Soviet pop duo t.A.T.u:

In 2003, a consular officer in Moscow told me that when the Russian duo t.A.T.u. applied for a visa, they were asked to sing for the staff to verify their identities.